We have learned belatedly of the death in October of the influential Swedish composer Jan W. Morthenson. He was 84. Morthenson developed three periods and styles – non-figurative music, meta-music and existentialist music. The first […]
We have been reminded of the BBC’s 1983 super-slow mini-series on the domestic life of Richard Wagner. The composer was played by Richard Burton, Cosima by Vanessa Redgrave. It gets worse as you go down […]